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Posts Tagged ‘Social Media Marketing’
8 Twips : Tips for Twitter Marketing
These eight ‘twips’ are best practices for building long-term high-payout Twitter accounts. Remember effective Twitter marketing is about building relationships and beginning a conversation – not making the sale. Your website makes the sale. Your time spent on Twitter interacting with your audience drives prospects to your website. Heavy-handed marketing or high-pressure sales directly on Twitter will not work in the long run.
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Facebook Demographics
I just read a great report by InsideFacebook.com that looks into the current demographic that is using Facebook. The results are very interesting. Women seem to be more into social media than men, but you will be surprised by the age groups!
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How to Build a Facebook Fan Page
A Facebook Fan Page is a public profile that enables you to share your business and products with Facebook users. People can be your fan without being your friend, and pages are designed for businesses.
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Dominate with Video
If you have a blog where you want to reach more people and drive traffic to your website you really need to be creating videos and uploading them on the web. Compete.com shows that YouTube had 85 million unique visitors in July 2009! Just imagine what it could do for your site if you happened to create a viral video that got 100,000 views… 200,000 views…. 1 million views!
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Grab Attention with Your Facebook Wall Posts
The Facebook wall is a running list of your friend’s latest status updates. Typically it includes a thumbnail of your friends profile photo and some text on the right. When there are about 30 updates on your wall, it’s hard to stand out if all you have is text. Adding video and photos to your updates makes your wall post stand-out from the crowd and draws friends or fans to click and see more. The examples below show how wall posts with photos and video stand out.
Engaging Your Audience with Social Media
Successful social media marketers actively engage their audiences and niche communities. Engagement means that your tweeps, fans, and subscribers react when you post. A reaction can be watching a video, visiting a link, buying a product, or posting a reply.
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Build Traffic with Social Bookmarking
Using social bookmarking or social media websites is a relatively easy way to get incoming links and traffic to your website. You will get increased traffic from the bookmarking sites directly, plus social bookmarks help search engine spiders connect specific keyword phrases with your website.
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Branding Your Twitter Page
When you are marketing your business on Twitter it is important to brand your page to match your website, blog, and other marketing materials. The best way to do this is to use a custom Twitter background image. On this background image, you can not only include your logo and branding graphics, but also information about you, your business, and basic contact information. Think of it as your Twitter business card.
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What is Social Bookmarking?
What is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your local web browser, you are saving them to the web where they can easily be shared with friends. The real power behind social bookmarking is being able to view your friends’ bookmarked sites. It’s the equivalent of recommending a restaurant to a friend, if people you know trust a website or blog, it’s worth your time to check it out.
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Separating Personal & Business Life on Facebook
Facebook is a great tool for rekindling old friendships and promoting your business, but how do you keep your two worlds separate? The answer is a little known feature called ‘Friends Lists’. Continue Reading